Ask questions, find answers and collaborate at work with Stack Overflow for Teams. Explore Teams. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. It's working great, no problems there. However I noticed that after upgrade the system has 2 versions of vlc 7 and 9. This is also the case with other snaps. Is there a way to automatically delete older versions of snaps?
Or do I just delete them using plain "rm" command? Is it safe to delete them that way? For Ubuntu In mid, snapd was updated so that the number of revisions is configurable though never less than 2.
In speaking with Ubuntu developers, the current default is to keep three prior versions of a snap so that you can roll-back to a prior version if needed. This default setting is not configurable. They are considering whether to have only the current snap mounted as a loop filesystem, but I don't know the status of that. Answer from doug , somewhat extended :. The reason for this is that snapd allows you to roll back to an older version of a given snap, that's why it keeps multiple versions.
Calling snap remove will remove them all from the system again. The revert command reverts the given snap to its state before the latest refresh. This will reactivate the previous snap revision, and will use the original data that was associated with that revision, discarding any data changes that were done by the latest revision.
As an exception, data which the snap explicitly chooses to share across revisions is not touched by the revert process. Ubuntu Community Ask! Try Teams for free Explore Teams. Learn more about Teams. How do I manage how many revisions snapd keeps of an application? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 6 months ago. Modified 2 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 7k times. So I installed vlc daily built snap package. Jorge Castro Stanley Mitchell Stanley Mitchell 4 4 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges.
